Chinon Industries Inc. (チノン株式会社, Chinon Kabushiki-gaisha^?)

The logo of Chinon Industries, circa 1989

was a Japanese camera manufacturer. It developed and continues to develop many digital camera models for Kodak, who took a majority stake in the company in 1997, and made it a fully-owned subsidiary of Kodak Japan, Kodak Digital Product Center, Japan Ltd. (株式会社コダック デジタル プロダクト センター, Kabushiki-gaisha Kodakku Dejitaru Prodakuto Sentã^?), in 2004 .^[1] 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound recording, such as with video cameras. ... A SiPix digital camera next to a matchbox to show scale. ... Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is a large multinational public company producing photographic equipment. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

They manufactured many cameras, such as the CG-5 which was one of the first cameras ever to use an Auto Focus lens, which had to be bought separately. The lenses are now rare and difficult to come by. They were cumbersome and had two infra-red "eyes" on the top. They would connect by a bayonet fitting similar to the Pentax K fitting except they also had electrical contacts which would power the motor at the press of the shutter release button.

Chinon also was a manufacturer of CD-ROM drives starting as late as 1988 for the DOS era [1], [2]. They stopped producing CD-ROM drives as early as 1995.